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The Californian
Newsome and liberals have destroyed Commifornica, once the greatest of great states
Don't forget how the liberal propaganda machine claims violent crime down in all blue democrat run states
Actually the Commifornica deficit is put at 42 billion by outside estimates
Not Newsom fake 24 billion
This is what happens when you over tax to fund liberal causes, the taxed move away and you create a deficit
California had a $97.5 billion budget surplus
How to turn that surplus into a deficit in less than a year
Liberal woke policies, destroying the state

Finance guru who's beaten Wall Street for 25 years makes doomsday prediction about future of California​

The problem is California is going broke,' he wrote on X. 'California will begin raising taxes and cutting subsidies to the poor, to prisons, environmental problems, and teachers unions. That means crime will spread as police will be cut.'
Back in December 2023, the state's Legislative Analyst’s Office reported a massive deficit of $68 billion because of a 'severe revenue decline' in the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
Overall violent crime in California was up 3 percent in 2023 when compared to 2022, according to the state's Department of Justice.

But if you zoom out and compare the 2023 numbers to 2019 - before the pandemic crime wave took hold all across the country - violent crime has skyrocketed 15 percent.
Property crime is also on the rise, with shoplifting offenses jumping 61 percent in Los Angeles alone over the last four years.
Oakland might be in the worst shape of all of California's major cities, with brazen scenes of criminality becoming all too common.

Among the most shocking include a mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt and an elderly woman getting attacked and robbed in broad daylight.

Just last month, 100 robbers tore a gas station apart and picked the shelves clean, their conduct not generating a timely police response.

Days after that incident, the Oakland Police Department admitted it only has 35 officers on patrol at any given moment for a city with over 400,000 people.


California’s volatile tax system strikes again​

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s penchant for braggadocio was in full flower eight months ago when he declared that California had a $97.5 billion budget surplus and boasted that “no other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.”
Petek, who pegged the current shortfall at $24 billion without a recession, warned in his November forecast that “Based on historical experience, should a recession occur soon, revenues could be $30 billion to $50 billion below our revenue outlook in the budget window.”

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Leaving Commifornica after Newsom elected

Getting the California Economy Working Again​

California lost 352 headquarters from January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2021, including 11 Fortune 1000 companies. The loss of corporate headquarters has only accelerated, with twice as many departures in 2021 as in 2020. The state's loss of population has increased

Tesla, Charles Schwab — and now Chevron. Texas is having a moment as companies leave California.​

 
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Nicely researched and sourced thread. I'm kind of convinced, very compelling evidence.

The recent wildfires have shown me how poorly funds are allocated.

There was no nearby fire-retardant dropping planes ($64,000 a dump) to catch that quickly reported Park Fire, but the cost to the state for yearly wildfires is 10s of billions of dollars? That isn't sensible.

That is poor management, refusing to invest in infrastructure so your numbers look good, bullshit.
That's not something like investing in solar or capping civil servant wages, it's death and destruction.
I felt a lot safer when Deukmejian was around.
 
California's population will increase again, but everyone with money is fleeing the state, so eventually you'll have a bunch of bottom feeders mooching off the system without anyone contributing.
 
I truly don't understand how people can afford to live in California. Just out of curiosity I did a quick experiment...

Google tells me that the area with the lowest cost of living is Fresno, so I rolled with that for the purposes of this review. Looking on Zillow, there are only 5 houses listed in Fresno that are at or below $200k. All of them are below 1000 square feet. The ones that even have interior pictures, look really rough.

I live in a much lower COL state and was able to buy a much larger home, in better condition, for much less money, with a decent sized yard and a pool.

I really don't get how people can afford to live comfortably at all out there, unless the businesses just pay much higher salaries to offset those higher costs? With the surge in remote work opportunities, I would be getting the hell out of dodge ASAP and moving to a state that is more affordable to live. That's pretty much what we did a couple of years ago when getting out of Florida.

I know that California is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful in some areas, but hell, there are plenty of places that are in the US, that you can realistically live much more comfortably in.
 
I truly don't understand how people can afford to live in California. Just out of curiosity I did a quick experiment...

Google tells me that the area with the lowest cost of living is Fresno, so I rolled with that for the purposes of this review. Looking on Zillow, there are only 5 houses listed in Fresno that are at or below $200k. All of them are below 1000 square feet. The ones that even have interior pictures, look really rough.

I live in a much lower COL state and was able to buy a much larger home, in better condition, for much less money, with a decent sized yard and a pool.

I really don't get how people can afford to live comfortably at all out there, unless the businesses just pay much higher salaries to offset those higher costs? With the surge in remote work opportunities, I would be getting the hell out of dodge ASAP and moving to a state that is more affordable to live. That's pretty much what we did a couple of years ago when getting out of Florida.

I know that California is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful in some areas, but hell, there are plenty of places that are in the US, that you can realistically live much more comfortably in.
My parents live in California and while working, they have a higher standard of living but once the retire they'll move to a cheaper state to stretch out the retirement fund.
 
I truly don't understand how people can afford to live in California. Just out of curiosity I did a quick experiment...

Google tells me that the area with the lowest cost of living is Fresno, so I rolled with that for the purposes of this review. Looking on Zillow, there are only 5 houses listed in Fresno that are at or below $200k. All of them are below 1000 square feet. The ones that even have interior pictures, look really rough.

I live in a much lower COL state and was able to buy a much larger home, in better condition, for much less money, with a decent sized yard and a pool.

I really don't get how people can afford to live comfortably at all out there, unless the businesses just pay much higher salaries to offset those higher costs? With the surge in remote work opportunities, I would be getting the hell out of dodge ASAP and moving to a state that is more affordable to live. That's pretty much what we did a couple of years ago when getting out of Florida.

I know that California is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful in some areas, but hell, there are plenty of places that are in the US, that you can realistically live much more comfortably in.
Silicon valley took care of the remote work from home, payroll. If you want to work from home, they pay you the going wage for the area you choose to reside in. Many had moved to places like Napa valley and Sonoma, beautiful, less expensive and less traffic, but lower wages. You want to live in Fresno, ok but you'll earn the going rate in Fresno and pretty much be in middle of nowhere
San Benito also in middle of nowhere, but closer to somewhere is somewhat of a hot spot now, new 3,500sqf homes on half acre with pool for about 1.5 million, lot of construction going on there and becoming popular, for people moving out of the mid peninsula, also just a 1.5hr commute to Silicon Valley
 
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Silicon valley took care of the remote work from home, payroll. If you want to work from home, they pay you the going wage for the area you choose to reside in. Many had moved to places like Napa valley and Sonoma, beautiful, less expensive and less traffic, but lower wages. You want to live in Fresno, ok but you'll earn the going rate in Fresno and pretty much be in middle of nowhere
San Benito also in middle of nowhere, but closer to somewhere is somewhat of a hot spot now, new 3,500sqf homes on half acre with pool for about 1.5 million, lot of construction going on there and becoming popular, for people moving out of the mid peninsula, also just a 1.5hr commute to Silicon Valley

Well that sucks. The company I most recently worked for would make salary offers based on where people lived, but to my understanding it was only as specific as by state, not county/city level. So, someone in CA might make a higher salary than someone in say, MS, and might have different benefits (when things like COVID pay were still happening) or break schedules based on local laws in their state. Seems like it'd be a logistical nightmare to drill it down any further than state level.

So I guess then the answer ultimately is yes, if you live in one of those more popular areas, you DO get paid a boatload more to be able to afford to do so?
 
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